The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-10-27
AT PEACE WITH ENEMIES.
Or. fALMAGE'S SERMON AT TIE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

Or. rALMAGE'S SERMON AT TIE
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Why We Should Forgive-Iu Humor Tx
hausting 60 Physical and Mental Health.
Those Who Preserve Their Temper in
Debate Generally Come Out Ahead.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 23.-The Rev. t. De
Witt Talmage, d. D., preached in [ ne
Brooklyn tabernacle this morning on ne
subject: forgiveness before Sundown. -
After explaining some passages concern
ing Hezelliah DIR. Talmage gave out tle
following hymn, which was sung by the
congregation:
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way
While each in expectation lives
And longs to see the day
Professor Henry Eyre Browne rendered
On the organ an aria with variations by
Cramer. The text of the sermon was
from Ephesians iv, 26: ''Let not the sun
go down upon your wrath DIR. Tai
mage said:
What a pillow embroidered of all colors
hath the dying day! The cradle of clouds
from which the sun rises is beautiful
enough, but it is surpassed by the many
colored mausoleum in which at evening
ii IS buried. Sunset among the mount
aims! 1t almost takes ones breath away
TO recall the scene. The long shadows
stretching over the plain make the glory
OF the departing light on the tiptop cra rs
and struck aslant through the foliage the
more transpicuous. Saffron and gold.
purple and crimson commingled. All
the castles of cloud in confagration.
Burning Moscows on the sky. Hanging
gardens of roses at their deepest blush.
Banners of vapor, red as if from carnase,
iii the battle of the elements. The hunter
among the Adirondacks and the Swiss
vi:lager among the Alps know what is
sunset among the mountains. After a
storm at sea the rolling grandeur into
which the sun goes down to bathe ut
nightfall is something to make weird and
splendid dreams out of for a lifetime.
Alexander Smith in his poem compares
the sunset TO 1.-The barren beach of hell, "
but this wonderful spectacle of nature
makes me think of the FURNISHED wall Of
heaven. Paul in prison writing my text
remembers some Of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains of Asia Minor, and
how he had often seen the towers of Da-
mascus blaze in the close of the Oriental
days, and he flashes out that memory IN
the text when he says: ''Let not the sun
go down upon your wrath"
Sublime and all suggestive duty for
people then and people now. Forgive
ness before sundown. He who never
feels the thrOb of Indignation is imbeci e.
He who can walk among the injustices
of the world, inflicted among himself ard
Others, without flush of cheek, or fash
OF eye, or agitation of nature is either IN
sympathy with wrong or semi-idiotic
When Ananias, the high priest, ordered
the conetable5 of the court room to smite
Pail in the mouth, Paul fired up and said:
"'God shall smite thee, thou whited wall -
In the sentence Immediately before my
text Paul commands the Ephesian5
"Ise ye angry and sin not 1t all de-
pends on what yOu are mad at and how
long the feeling lasts whether anger is
right or wrong. Life is full of exasper
atoms. Saul after David, Succoth after
Gideon, Korah after Moses, the Pasquins
after Augustus, the Pharisees after
Christ, and every one has had his pur-
suers, and we are swindled. or belied, or
misrepresented, or prosecuted or in some
way wronged and the danger is that
healthful Indignation shall become bate
ful spite, and that our feelings settle
down into a prolonged outpouring of
temper displeasing to God and ruinous to
ourselves, and hence the important IN
junction of the text: ''Let not the san
go down upon your wrath"
-.
Why that period of flaming vapor set to
punctuate flaming disposition? WHAT
has the sunset got to do with ones re-
Sentful emotions? Was it haphazard
continent written by Paul without special
significance? No, no; | think of i've
reasons why we should not let the sun
set before our temper sets
First: Because twelve hours is long
enough to be cross about any wrong IN
fiicted upon us. Nothing is SO exhaust
ing to physical health or mental faculty
as protracted indulgence of i'll humor.
1t racks the nervous system. 1t hurts
the digestion. 1t heats the blood in brain
and heart until the whole body is first
Oyerheated and then depressed. Beside
that, it sours the disposition, turns one
aside from his legitimate work, expends
energies that ought to be better employ ID,
and does us more harm than it does our
antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wide
allowance of time for legitimate denunci-
alton, from o'clock to G o'clock, but
says: "Stop therer' Watch the de-
scending orb of day, and when it reaches
the horizon take reef in your disposi-
ton. Unloose your collar and cool off.
Change the subject to something delight
fully pleasant. Unroll your tight list
and shake hands with some one. Bank
up the fires at the curfew bell. Drive he
growing dog of enmity back to its ken
mel. The hours Of this morning will pass
by, and the afternoon will arrive, and
the sun will begin TO set, and l beg you
on it's blazing hearth throw all your feUds,
mvectives and satires.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out
ahead. An old essayist says that the
celebrated John Henderson of Bristol,
England. was at dining party where
political excitement ran high and the de-
bate got angry, and while Henderson was
Speaking. his opponept, unable to answer
his argument, dashed glass Of wine IN
lis face, when the speaker deliberately
NlIseA tne Alulu AIOn4 his lace ans. H-''A'
This, sir, is a DEPRESSION; now, if YOU
please, for the main argument" Wlile
worldly philosophy could help but cry
few to such equipoise of spirit, the grace
of God could help any man to such tri-
umph. Impossible" you say, Il would
lave either left the table in anger or have
knocked the man down." But l lave
come to believe that nothing is impcssi-
lie if God help, since what l saw at TIL
Shan faith cure in London, England, two
summers ago. While the religious serv-
ice was going on Rev. DIR. Boardn2an.
glorious man, since gone to his heavenly
rest, was telling the scores of sick
people present that Christ was there
rs of old to heal all diseases. and THAI, ii
they would only believe, their sickness
Sz